I downloaded Flock last night and promptly removed it from my machine after I found how slow it was.
Well well, this morning whilst catching up with some blog post, I came across this at the Cult of Mac blog. It seems that I didn’t download the beta but a stable version that ran like a pig. I remember trying flock out on Windows when everyone was raving about it. It was just too slow for me, so it was removed from my machine very quickly.
Essentially Flock is Firefox with all these little social network goodies for Facebook, Flickr, de.licio.us and other things built into it. This post is being written in Flock’s built-in blog editor which doesn’t seem too bad.
If you’re a Firefox and Facebook user, you will love Flock. All Firefox settings and bookmarks are imported seamlessly. It feels the same as Firefox but sometime the interface seems a little cluttered. I think that with a little tweaking I could change this.
I might try Flock out for a while. Who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised.
Tags: flock, browser, blogging, social software
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:48 am
Hey jim,
Let me know if you run into big performance issues again. Most of our users don’t, but there are a few sneaky bugs that we’ve been crushing over the last few weeks. If you have one of them, we may be able to hunt it down by looking at your logs or profile.
Happy Flocking!
Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
November 14th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Hi … I just downloaded this browser for Windows and it works like a breeze… And since almost all add-ons of Mozilla are working with Flock, it makes it very compatible and the feed reader is working like a gem… These are first impressions, but they are certainly good. Was using Safari because it was fast, but it doesn’t have a lot of plugins for windows that I can tap in to like the google toolbar etc… so thanks for the work on this one …
Sam